Visions of Peace: Dreams of a New Way
Chelli Stanley | counterpunch.org | 2019-08-08
After Medgar, Malcolm, and then Martin were killed, people realized there were forces in America that would keep Black people from achieving true freedom "by any means necessary." When the Black Panther Party started to feed children at no cost, opened free health clinics, engaged in free public education, and tried to prevent the police…
counterpunch.org/2019/08/08/visions-of-peace-dreams-of-a-new-way/
To Flee or Not to Flee? In Honduras, A Child Braves Tear Gas to Sell Vinegar Bags
Adrienne Pine | mintpressnews.com | 2019-08-08
Public education and job opportunities have been stolen from Honduran youth by a U.S.-backed narco-state bent on privatizing the whole of society. Youth face the choice of suffering violence and repression at home or risking the dangerous journey to the United States.
mintpressnews.com/flee-honduras-child-braves-tear-gas-sell-vinegar-bags/261243/
Death by Police is Now the 6th Leading Cause of Death Among Young Men
Staff | therealnews.com | 2019-08-08
It was once believed that police killings were the 14th leading cause of death among young people. However, a new Rutgers University study by Frank Edwards, which used federal statistics and journalistic investigation found that the death rate is far higher now. We discuss the research with Frank Edwards…
therealnews.com/stories/death-by-police-is-now-the-6th-leading-cause-of-death-among-young-men
Five Years After the Genocide, Yazidis Share Their Forgotten Stories and Demand Justice
Jesuit Refugee Service | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-08
Five years after Islamic State (ISIS) militants launched a genocide against the Yazidi community in Sinjar, northern Iraq, hundreds of thousands of Yazidis are still displaced and living in harsh conditions. The Jesuit Refugee Service (JRS) calls on the | …
globalresearch.ca/five-years-after-genocide-yazidis-share-their-forgotten-stories-demand-justice/5685924
Escalating US War on China by Other Means. Undermining Stability in Asia-Pacific Region
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-08
The US is hostile toward all nations it doesn't control, waging war on them by naked aggression and other means, including against China. | Pressuring and bullying the country to bend to its interests failed, what Trump and hardliners surrounding him …
globalresearch.ca/escalating-us-war-china-other-means/5685952
Hong Kong, Kashmir: A Tale of Two Occupations
Pepe Escobar | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-08
Readers from myriad latitudes have been asking me about Hong Kong. They know it's one of my previous homes. I developed a complex, multi-faceted relationship with Hong Kong ever since the 1997 handover, which I covered extensively. Right now, if …
globalresearch.ca/hong-kong-kashmir-tale-two-occupations/5685932
40 Million People Are Victims of Modern-Day Slavery Worldwide
telesurenglish.net | 2019-08-08
Over 40.3 million people worldwide are living in modern forms of slavery such as bonded labor, child labor, human trafficking and forced begging, according to a research carried out by the Walk Free Foundation (WFF) and the International Labor Organization (ILO). | RELATED: | Brazil: Bolsonaro Questions anti-Slave Labor Law, Says It Hurts Businesses | The WFF-ILO report defines contemporary slavery as having to do with "situations of exploitation that a person cannot…
telesurenglish.net/news/40-Million-People-Are-Victims-of-Modern-Day-Slavery-Worldwide-20190808-0001.html
Is the Federal Reserve Losing Control of the Gold Price? Rigging the Currency Market
Dr. Paul Craig Roberts | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-08
After years of being kept in the doldrums by orchestrated short selling described on this website by Roberts and Kranzler, gold has lately moved up sharply reaching $1,510 this morning. The gold price has continued to rise despite the continuing …
globalresearch.ca/federal-reserve-losing-control-gold-price/5685877
Video: Quitting Cold Turkey
South Front | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-08
Until literally a couple of years ago, courtesy of its enviable position in Asia Minor positioned in direct proximity of USSR (during the Cold War), Iran (after the Islamic Revolution), Iraq, and of course Syria in most recent years, Turkey …
globalresearch.ca/video-quitting-cold-turkey/5685875
"Economic Terror": Trump Regime Aims to Starve Venezuelans into Submission
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-08
Under both extremist right wings of the US war party, the incremental Nazification of America may become full-blown in our lifetimes if not strongly challenged by the world community. | The Trump regime exceeds the worst of its predecessors. Based on …
globalresearch.ca/economic-terror-trump-regime-aims-to-starve-venezuelans-into-submission/5685937
Demonstration Held Condemning Police Killing of African American in Detroit Suburb
Abayomi Azikiwe | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-08
Over 100 people gathered outside police headquarters in a suburban municipality east of Detroit to demonstrate against the failure of local authorities to hold several police officers accountable in the shooting death of 29 year old African American Theoddeus Gray…
globalresearch.ca/demonstration-held-condemning-police-killing-african-american-detroit-suburb/5685892
Why SAA Resumed the Military Operation against Al Qaeda to Clean Idlib
Arabi Souri | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-08
The latest 13th round of talks in Astana between the Syrian state with Russia and Iran as its guarantors on one side, and Al-Qaeda and the Turkish regime as it guarantor on the other side, would have slowly but steadily …
globalresearch.ca/saa-resumed-military-operation-clean-idlib-post-astana-talks/5685773
Food Shipment Destined for Venezuela Seized Due to US Blockade
Telesur | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-08
Venezuela's Vice President Delcy Rodriguez denounced Wednesday that a ship containing 25 thousand tons of soy-made products has been seized in the Panama Canal due to the U.S. blockade while calling on the United Nations to take action against the …
globalresearch.ca/food-shipment-destined-venezuela-seized-due-us-blockade/5685911
Gaza Journalists Target of Israeli Snipers
Mahmoud Barakat | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-08
Palestinian journalists covering the weekly protests against the decades-long Israeli occupation are complaining of being the target of Israeli snipers stationed along the border of the blockaded territory. | Since the protests began in March of last year, two journalists have …
globalresearch.ca/gaza-journalists-target-israeli-snipers/5685918
If Crimea Matters, Russia Should Support Kashmir
Andrew Korybko | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-08
There are striking structural similarities between Kashmir and Crimea that should make Russian decision makers think twice before endorsing the unilateral actions of their decades-long Indian partners if they want to remain politically consistent. | Kashmir and Crimea share many structural …
globalresearch.ca/if-crimea-matters-russia-should-support-kashmir/5685871
The FBI's Alleged Conspiracy Theorist-Terrorist Connection Is Anti-American
Andrew Korybko | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-08
The de-facto criminalization of free speech is an ongoing trend in American society that's already pressured a lot of people to self-censor their beliefs in public in order to avoid official scrutiny from the authorities or harassment by their political opponents,…
globalresearch.ca/fbi-alleged-conspiracy-theorist-terrorist-connection-anti-american/5685908
Quincy Who? Another New Washington Think Tank Tests the Waters
Philip Giraldi | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-08
Think tanks sprout like weeds in Washington. The latest is the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, which is engaged in a pre-launch launch and is attracting some media coverage all across the political spectrum. The Institute is named after …
globalresearch.ca/quincy-who-another-new-think-tank-tests-waters/5685928
Global Research Publishers: Special Offers On Our Book Titles
Global Research | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-08
All of these titles from Global Research Publishers are available in print and PDF (e-book). For our North American customers they are also available in bulk for a discounted price in bulk. If you prefer to shop using Amazon, they …
globalresearch.ca/global-research-publishers-special-offers-on-our-book-titles/5684648
"Economic Terror": Trump Regime Aims to Starve Venezuelans into Submission
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-08
Venezuela Vice President Delcy Rodriguez | Under both extremist right wings of the US war party, the incremental Nazification of America may become full-blown in our lifetimes if not strongly challenged by the world community. | The Trump regime exceeds the worst …
globalresearch.ca/economic-terror-trump-regime-aims-to-starve-venezuelans-into-submission/5685937
Demonstrations Surrounded the Democratic Party Debates in Detroit
Abayomi Azikiwe | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-08
On July 30 and 31 the attention of the national media in the United States was focused on the Fox Theater in downtown Detroit where 20 Democratic Party candidates for the presidency debated various issues presented to them by anchors …
globalresearch.ca/demonstrations-surrounded-democratic-party-debates-detroit/5685888
The Mexican Debt Crisis and the World Bank
Eric Toussaint | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-08
In 2019, the World Bank (WB) and the IMF will be 75 years old. These two international financial institutions (IFI), founded in 1944, are dominated by the USA and a few allied major powers who work to generalize policies that …
globalresearch.ca/mexican-debt-crisis-world-bank/5685881
Rex 84: FEMA's Blueprint for Martial Law in America
Allen L Roland | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-08
We are dangerously close to a situation where ~ if the American people took to the streets in righteous indignation or if there were another 9/11 ~ a mechanism for martial law could be quickly implemented and carried out under REX 84.
globalresearch.ca/rex-84-fema-s-blueprint-for-martial-law-in-america/3010
The DSA's dishonest and self-serving account of the US teachers' strikes
wsws.org | 2019-08-08
A new book by Democratic Socialists of America member Eric Blanc reviewing the role of the DSA during the teacher strikes in West Virginia, Oklahoma and Arizona aims to boost the credibility of the unions and the Democratic Party.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/08/08/reds…
Number of A&E patients waiting more than four hours up by a third
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2019-08-08
The number of patients waiting more than four hours to be admitted to A&E has risen more than a third in a year and is at a record high, new NHS figures show.The number of patients seen after four hours was 275,526 last month compared to 208,083 in July 2018, an increase of 32.4%, NHS performance statistics for England show.There were 57,694 A&E patients waiting more than four hours in July from decision to admit to admission — a rise of 34.7% from the same month last year.This is also the highest number for July since current records began in August 2010.(PA Graphics)Of these, 436 patients waited more than…
thecanary.co/discovery/news-discovery/2019/08/08/number-of-ae-patients-waiting-more-than-four-hours-up-by-a-third/
Westpac workers back student climate strike
pip.hinman | greenleft.org.au | 2019-08-08
The following motion to support the student climate stike on September 20 was passed on July 31. | We, the Finance Sector Union, Local Enterprise Council, Westpac, NSW/ACT: | a) Recognise that climate change: | Presents an existential threat, being a "global emergency" according to the 2018 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report; | Has already had negative impacts both internationally and in Australia, as evidenced by the breaking of heat records, prolonged and more aggressive bushfire seasons, bleaching of the Great Barrier Reef and increased droughts; | Is the product of corporate greed and pro…
greenleft.org.au/content/westpac-workers-back-student-climate-strike
Brazil's Space Agency Head Fired Over Amazon Deforestation Data
telesurenglish.net | 2019-08-07
Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon reached 2,254.8 square kilometers in July, an area 278 percent larger than the surface affected by the phenomenon in the same month last year, according to the latest estimates of the National Institute of Space Research ( INPE) updated Tuesday. | RELATED: | 'Bolsonaro is Responsible for the Amazon' UN Rapporteur Says | According to INPE's projection, which captures monthly data through a system of alerts on al…
telesurenglish.net/news/Brazils-Space-Agency-Head-Fired-Over-Amazon-Deforestation-Data-20190807-0016.html
Trade War: China Suspends Purchases of US Agricultural Products
Telesur | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-07
China's Commerce Ministry announced Tuesday that the Asian country will suspend the purchase of U.S. agricultural goods in response to the recent announcement that the President Donald Trump administration will increase tariffs to Chinese exports. | "It has been agreed that | …
globalresearch.ca/trade-war-china-suspends-purchases-us-agricultural-products/5685799
Britain's Flagship Drone Projects: UK Government Spending Watchdog Highlights "Significant Issues"
Peter Burt | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-07
The Ministry of Defence's two flagship drone projects — the 'Protector' programme to introduce the Certifiable Predator B drone into service with the Royal Air Force, and the Army's Watchkeeper surveillance drone — continue to face 'significant issues' according to …
globalresearch.ca/government-spending-watchdog-highlights-significant-issues-uk-drone-projects/5685822
Why Oliver Stone's Latest Film on Ukraine Is Must-watch
Johanna Ross | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-07
Oliver Stone is afraid. Afraid of war. That was the stark message conveyed by his latest film on the Ukraine crisis, 'Revealing Ukraine' which picked up the Grand Prix at the Taormina film festival in Italy last month. The documentary, …
globalresearch.ca/why-oliver-stones-latest-film-ukraine-must-watch/5685676
This Iranian War Vet Has Some Advice for Trump: Don't Play Checkers with the Grandmasters of Chess
Habib Ahmadzadeh | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-07
Dear President Trump, | In a recent Tweet, you claimed that "Iranians never won a war, but never lost a negotiation." As a world citizen and a veteran of the 1980-1988 Iran-Iraq war, I have firsthand experience with the bitterness of …
globalresearch.ca/iranian-war-vet-has-some-advice-trump-dont-play-checkers-grandmasters-chess/5685775
Video: Collapse of Ceasefire, Syrian Military Vows to Resume Operations Against Al Qaeda Militants
South Front | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-07
The new ceasefire agreement designed to cease hostilities in northwestern Hama and southern Idlib has just collapsed. | On August 3, the leader of Hay'at Tahir al-Sham (formerly Jabhat al-Nusra), Abu Mohammad al-Julani, announced that his group would not withdraw …
globalresearch.ca/video-collapse-of-ceasefire-syrian-military-vows-to-resume-operations-against-al-qaeda-militants/5685745
India's Tryst with Destiny: Freedom Struggle from Exploitation and Degradation Is Global
Colin Todhunter | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-07
Today, we are in the grip of a globalised system of capitalism which drives narcissism, domination, ego, anthropocentrism, speciesism and plunder. A system that is using up oil, water and other resources much faster than they can ever be regenerated. …
globalresearch.ca/indias-tryst-destiny-freedom-struggle-exploitation-degradation-global/5685759
Caught in the Strait. Britain's Confrontation with Iran
Dr. Binoy Kampmark | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-07
It is clear that the United Kingdom could not have thought this through. Was it a touch of the Suez jitters, the haunting syndrome of 1956 leaving a false impression that the Old Empire still had it? To taunt a …
globalresearch.ca/caught-strait/5685794
"On a Scale of 1-10, It's an 11" — Wall Street Reacts to China's Retaliation
Zero Hedge | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-07
One day after China finally snapped, and demonstratively refused to intervene and keep the CNH above 7.00 vs the dollar, escalating the trade war into a currency war, stocks are tumbling and Wall Street analysts — all of whom had …
globalresearch.ca/scale-1-10-its-11-wall-street-reacts-china-retaliation/5685801
U.K. Breakup? New Poll Sets the Scene for Scottish Independence Referendum
Johanna Ross | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-07
Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has hailed as 'phenomenal' a new poll which shows majority support for Scottish Independence. The survey, which was carried out by Lord Ashcroft in the wake of Prime Minister Boris Johnson's visit to Scotland …
globalresearch.ca/new-poll-sets-scene-scottish-independence-referendum/5685771
Trump Regime "Maximum Pressure" High Crimes Against World Peace. Illegal Embargo against Venezuela
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-07
Maximum pressure is a Trump regime euphemism for unlawful political, economic and financial collective punishment against a sovereign state, its leadership and population — for not bending to Washington's will. | Binding international law Fourth Geneva's Article 33 prohibits it, stating: …
globalresearch.ca/trump-regime-maximum-pressure-high-crimes-against-world-peace-illegal-embargo-against-venezuela/5685826
We're All Enemies of the State: Draconian Laws, Precrime and the Surveillance State
John W. Whitehead | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-07
"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary."–H.L. Mencken | We've been down this road many times before. | If …
globalresearch.ca/we-all-enemies-state-draconian-laws-precrime-surveillance-state/5685762
Trump's "Tragic Gift" to the Dems
Philip A Farruggio | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-07
Well, the Neo Con Dem party, lately much more the 'Lesser of two evils', was just given a gift. | The sad, tragically sad reality is that this most terrible example of white (and Christian) murder via hate in Texas can …
globalresearch.ca/trumps-tragic-gift-dems/5685765
China Just Went Nuclear in the Trade War, and There Is No Turning Back Now
Michael Snyder | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-07
When will Americans start to wake up and realize what is happening? At the end of last week, President Trump announced that the U.S. would be imposing a 10 percent tariff on 300 billion dollars worth of Chinese imports, and …
globalresearch.ca/china-just-went-nuclear-trade-war-no-turning-back-now/5685836
Hiroshima Unlearned: Time to Tell the Truth About US Relations with Russia
Alice Slater | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-07
August 6th and 9th mark 74 years since the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, where only one nuclear bomb dropped on each city caused the deaths of up to 146,000 people in Hiroshima and 80,000 people in Nagasaki. Today, …
globalresearch.ca/hiroshima-unlearned-time-tell-truth-about-us-relations-russia/5685824
Trump's Embrace of White Supremacy Is Poisoning America's Soul
Prof. Alon Ben-Meir | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-07
Within 13 hours, two mass shooting took place–in El Paso, Texas and Dayton, Ohio–killing 31 innocent people and injuring twice as many. We normally hear about these horrifying incidents, express sorrow and bewilderment, talk about gun control, and move on. …
globalresearch.ca/trumps-embrace-white-supremacy-poisoning-america-soul/5685754
Will Mercenaries Fight America's Wars? Private Mercenary Army on Behalf of Venezuela "Opposition"
Philip Giraldi | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-07
President Donald Trump's pre-election pledge to end America's useless wars in the Middle East and Afghanistan just might turn out to be somewhat less than what was promised if some political allies of the president have their way. For …
globalresearch.ca/will-mercenaries-fight-americas-wars/5685769
India's Finding Out the Hard Way that It Isn't "America's Exclusive Ally"
Andrew Korybko | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-07
India hitherto thought that the US needed it more than the reverse and that's why took its nascent military-strategic alliance with it for granted by trying to play "hardball" in pressing for a better trade deal, yet it's now finding …
globalresearch.ca/india-finding-out-hard-way-it-isnt-us-exclusive-ally/5685793
Future of Amazon Deforestation Data in Doubt as Research Head Sacked by Bolsonaro
Karla Mendes | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-07
After a month of intensifying criticism from far-right President Jair Bolsonaro concerning data revealing a spike in deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon over recent months, the Brazilian President has fired the head of the government agency in charge of tracking …
globalresearch.ca/future-amazon-deforestation-data-doubt-research-head-sacked/5685832
Assessing President Diaz-Canel's Commitment to the Ideals of the Cuban Revolution
Dr. Birsen Filip | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-07
Fidel Castro was an unparalleled leader. Although some of his adversaries had hoped that the ideals and objectives of the Cuban Revolution would die with him, they have in fact persevered, thereby supporting Fidel's view that 'a combatant may die, …
globalresearch.ca/assessing-president-diaz-canels-commitment-ideals-cuban-revolution/5685751
Erdogan Announces Military Operation East of Euphrates River to Push Back Kurds, US Urges Him to Reconsider
Sarah Abed | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-07
In what would be Turkey's third cross-border military operation in Syria since the war began, in as many years, Erdogan announced on Sunday that he would be launching a military operation east of the Euphrates river, to push back Kurdish …
globalresearch.ca/erdogan-announces-military-operation-east-euphrates-river-push-back-kurds-us-urges-him-reconsider/5685820
Syrian Security Confiscates Armored Vehicles, Weapons, Captagon, Drugs
Arabi Souri | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-07
Syrian security units and Syrian Arab Army units operating in Hama northern countryside, northwest of Syria, and Daraa countryside, south of Syria, had a busy day busting, discovering, and confiscating large stashes of weapons, munition, gears, armored vehicles, illicit drugs …
globalresearch.ca/syrian-security-confiscates-armored-vehicles-weapons-captagon-drugs/5685732
The Skripal Poisoning: Anonymous' Revelations Point to UK Intelligence Motives
Karin Brothers | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-07
Sergei Skripal was a former Russian double agent for Britain. After a high-profile spy swap in 2010, he lived in Salisbury, England, near his former MI6 handler, Pablo Miller, who he reportedly kept in touch with. | Late in the …
globalresearch.ca/skripal-poisoning-anonymous-revelations-point-uk-intelligence-motives/5685778
Can the Progressive-"Conspiracy" Divide be Bridged?
John Kirby | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-07
People from a variety of advocacy communities who tackle issues ranging from the assassinations of the 1960's to vaccine safety are rightly upset by a recent NBC News.com op-ed authored by Lynn Parramore, a progressive journalist known for her …
globalresearch.ca/can-progressive-conspiracy-divide-bridged/5685749
"Pre-Emptive Arrest": An Open Invitation to Tyranny
Dr. Paul Craig Roberts | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-07
The FBI has published a document that concludes that "conspiracy theories" can motivate believers to commit crimes. | Considering the growing acceptance of pre-emptive arrest, that is, arresting someone before they can commit a crime that they are suspected of planning …
globalresearch.ca/pre-emptive-arrest-an-open-invitation-to-tyranny/5685816
